Ghostbusters: Afterlife official age-rating revealed

Well, we know now what rating our most highly anticipated movie of 2021 is going to have and it feels like it’s a step closer to the movie actually getting released, having been delayed twice already due to that damned virus.

Yes, Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been rated PG-13 in the US (hopefully that will get it a 12A here in the UK) – which is the same rating the reboot got in 2106 – for “supernatural action and some suggestive references”.

The original two movies got straight up PG ratings although we cannot see Eleanor Twitty – the library ghost – getting away that easily these days.

Interestingly, it seems Steven Spielberg is a big fan of that moment in the 1984 original with Afterlife director Jason Reitma relaying a fun story about this in Empire Magazine: “The feeling that I’ve kind of held onto is that while [the original movie] is very funny, it really scared me. It was really my first experience with a horror film.

“I was at a Directors Guild meeting and I happened to be sitting next to Steven Spielberg – when I told him I was working on Ghostbusters, he out of nowhere said, ‘Library Ghost – top ten scares of all time.’ And it’s true.”

The director also tells about his father, director of the first two movies, Ivan Reitman and his delight at seeing Afterlife: “After [he watched it], he cried, and he said, ‘I’m so proud to be your father’. And it was one of the great moments of my life.”